Maysville Community and Technical College Received National Recognition for Community
Service, Named to Presidents Honor Roll

Maysville Community and Technical College has been named to the 2009 Presidents
Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the highest federal recognition a college
or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning and
civic engagement.

The Corporation for National and Community Service, which administers the annual Honor
Roll award, recognized more than 700 colleges and universities for their impact on
issues from poverty and homelessness to environmental justice. On campuses across
the country, thousands of students joined their faculty to develop innovative programs
and projects to meet local needs using the skills gained in their classrooms. Business
students served as consultants to budget-strapped nonprofits and businesses, law students
volunteered at legal clinics, and dozens of others organized anti-hunger campaigns.

Congratulations to Maysville Community and Technical College and its students for
their dedication to service and commitment to improving their local communities, said
Patrick Corvington, CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service. Our
nations students are a critical part of the equation and vital to our efforts to tackle
the most persistent challenges we face. They have achieved impactful results and demonstrated
the value of putting knowledge into practice to help renew America through service.

The Honor Roll includes six colleges and universities that are recognized as Presidential
Awardees, with an additional 115 named to the Distinction List and 621 schools named
as Honor Roll members. Honorees are chosen based on a series of selection factors
including the scope and innovation of service projects, percentage of student participation
in service activities, incentives for service, and the extent to which the school
offers academic service-learning courses. For a full list of Honor Roll recipients.

We at Maysville Community and Technical College are very proud of our students who
are involved in service learning activities, said MCTC President Ed Story. This front
line involvement in their community provides students another avenue to be engaged
in activities that can affect humanitarian efforts in all of our communities. We encourage
students and faculty alike to be involved with service learning projects. Maysville Community and Technical College students have been involved in community
service in a variety of ways. Nursing students have volunteered as companions to nursing
home residents, have set up a booth at the community health fair and have also taken
blood pressure for clients at a local nonprofit organization. Early Childhood Education
students have spent time with pre-school students doing developmental activities such
as counting, learning the alphabet and practicing good hygiene.

College students make a significant contribution to the volunteer sector; in 2009,
3.16 million students performed more than 300 million hours of service, according
to the Volunteering in America study released by the Corporation. Each year, the Corporation
invests more than $150 million in fostering a culture of service on college campuses
through grants awarded by its programs; the education awards that AmeriCorps members
receive at the conclusion of their term of service to pay for college; and through
support of training, research, recognition, and other initiatives to spur college
service.

The Corporation oversees the Honor Roll in collaboration with the Department of Education,
the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Campus Compact and the American Council
on Education.

The Corporation for National and Community Service is a federal agency that engages
more five million Americans in service through its Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and Learn
and Serve America programs, and leads President Obama's national call to service initiative,
United We Serve. For more information.